Repressive vs Brutal - What's the difference?
repressive | brutal | Related terms |
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
* 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
* 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
(senseid)Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel
Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
Harsh; unrelenting
Disagreeably precise or penetrating
(music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
Repressive is a related term of brutal.
As adjectives the difference between repressive and brutal
is that repressive is while brutal is (senseid)savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.repressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Human law is indeed repressive', but ' repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
